Nanoscale nutrients can protect plants from fungal diseases
Chances are, most — if not all — of the produce in your kitchen is threatened by fungal diseases. The threat looms large for...
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The book ‘Viral BS’ offers a cure for medical myths and fake health news
Viral BSSeema YasminJohns Hopkins Univ., $24.95 How does misinformation spread? What causes medical myths and pseudoscience to rapidly infect and fester in society? Seema...
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter’s mission with Perseverance has been extended
The Ingenuity helicopter proved it could fly on Mars. Now it has loftier goals. Having passed all its original engineering tests, the tiny spacecraft...
Little Foot’s shoulders hint at how a human-chimp common ancestor climbed
Little Foot, a nearly complete hominid skeleton painstakingly excavated from rock inside a South African cave, shouldered a powerful evolutionary load. This 3.67-million-year-old adult...
Wild donkeys and horses engineer water holes that help other species
Water drives the rhythms of desert life, but animals aren’t always helpless against the whims of weather. In the American southwest, wild donkeys and...
Lightning may be an important source of air-cleaning chemicals
Lightning could play an important role in flushing pollutants out of the atmosphere. Observations from a storm-chasing airplane reveal that lightning can forge lots...
Mantis shrimp start practicing their punches at just 9 days old
The fastest punches in the animal kingdom probably belong to mantis shrimp — and they may begin unleashing these attacks a little more than...
A clock’s accuracy may be tied to the entropy it creates
Today’s most advanced clocks keep time with an incredibly precise rhythm. But a new experiment suggests that clocks’ precision comes at a price: entropy....
Climate change may have changed the direction of the North Pole’s drift
A sudden zag in which way the North Pole’ was drifting in the 1990s probably stemmed in large part from glacial melt caused by...
The thickness of lead’s neutron ‘skin’ has been precisely measured
Some atomic nuclei are thin-skinned — they’re surrounded by a slim shell of neutrons. Physicists now know how thick that neutron skin is for...
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